Discovery Box| (0.55) | Jer 12:1 |
| Lord, you have always been fair whenever I have complained to you. 1 However, I would like to speak with you about the disposition of justice. 2 Why are wicked people successful? 3 Why do all dishonest people have such easy lives? |
| (0.55) | Jer 12:12 |
| A destructive army 1 will come marching over the hilltops in the desert. For the Lord will use them as his destructive weapon 2 against 3 everyone from one end of the land to the other. No one will be safe. 4 |
| (0.55) | Jer 13:20 |
| Then I said, 1 “Look up, Jerusalem, 2 and see the enemy 3 that is coming from the north. Where now is the flock of people that were entrusted to your care? 4 Where now are the ‘sheep’ that you take such pride in? 5 |
| (0.55) | Jer 13:21 |
| What will you say 1 when the Lord 2 appoints as rulers over you those allies that you, yourself, had actually prepared as such? 3 Then anguish and agony will grip you like that of a woman giving birth to a baby. 4 |
| (0.55) | Jer 13:23 |
| But there is little hope for you ever doing good, you who are so accustomed to doing evil. Can an Ethiopian 1 change the color of his skin? Can a leopard remove its spots? 2 |
| (0.55) | Jer 14:3 |
| The leading men of the cities send their servants for water. They go to the cisterns, 1 but they do not find any water there. They return with their containers 2 empty. Disappointed and dismayed, they bury their faces in their hands. 3 |
| (0.55) | Jer 14:7 |
| Then I said, 1 “O Lord, intervene for the honor of your name 2 even though our sins speak out against us. 3 Indeed, 4 we have turned away from you many times. We have sinned against you. |
| (0.55) | Jer 15:6 |
| I, the Lord, say: 1 ‘You people have deserted me! You keep turning your back on me.’ 2 So I have unleashed my power against you 3 and have begun to destroy you. 4 I have grown tired of feeling sorry for you!” 5 |
| (0.55) | Jer 15:11 |
| The Lord said, “Jerusalem, 1 I will surely send you away for your own good. I will surely 2 bring the enemy upon you in a time of trouble and distress. |
| (0.55) | Jer 15:17 |
| I did not spend my time in the company of other people, laughing and having a good time. I stayed to myself because I felt obligated to you 1 and because I was filled with anger at what they had done. |
| (0.55) | Jer 16:7 |
| No one will take any food to those who mourn for the dead to comfort them. No one will give them any wine to drink to console them for the loss of their father or mother. |
| (0.55) | Jer 16:13 |
| So I will throw you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your ancestors have ever known. There you must worship other gods day and night, for I will show you no mercy.’” |
| (0.55) | Jer 17:18 |
| May those who persecute me be disgraced. Do not let me be disgraced. May they be dismayed. Do not let me be dismayed. Bring days of disaster on them. Bring on them the destruction they deserve.” 1 |
| (0.55) | Jer 17:22 |
| Do not carry any loads out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day. 1 But observe the Sabbath day as a day set apart to the Lord, 2 as I commanded your ancestors. 3 |
| (0.55) | Jer 18:4 |
| Now and then 1 there would be something wrong 2 with the pot he was molding from the clay 3 with his hands. So he would rework 4 the clay into another kind of pot as he saw fit. 5 |
| (0.55) | Jer 18:16 |
| So their land will become an object of horror. 1 People will forever hiss out their scorn over it. All who pass that way will be filled with horror and will shake their heads in derision. 2 |
| (0.55) | Jer 18:17 |
| I will scatter them before their enemies like dust blowing in front of a burning east wind. I will turn my back on them and not look favorably on them 1 when disaster strikes them.” |
| (0.55) | Jer 19:6 |
| So I, the Lord, say: 1 “The time will soon come that people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Hinnom Valley. But they will call this valley 2 the Valley of Slaughter! |
| (0.55) | Jer 20:2 |
| When he heard Jeremiah’s prophecy, he had the prophet flogged. 1 Then he put him in the stocks 2 which were at the Upper Gate of Benjamin in the Lord’s temple. 3 |
| (0.55) | Jer 20:16 |
| May that man be like the cities 1 that the Lord destroyed without showing any mercy. May he hear a cry of distress in the morning and a battle cry at noon. |
